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Open Source Networking Opens Its Doors To Businesses
Blog It's difficult to know exactly how excited to get about open source networking projects. So should businesses be looking at open source networking? And who wants to hack into a little-used open source router?
[February 7, 2007, 17:02]
Open-source Legal Body Sues Over GPL Violation
News A legal team enforcing the most widely used licence in the open-source and free-software movement has shown that it's not afraid to take its cases all the way to court. For years, violations of the General Public License (GPL) have been met with...
[October 1, 2007, 15:08]
Open-source Eclipse Unveils Ajax Projects
News The Eclipse Foundation, an open-source consortium, on Tuesday detailed three projects designed to make Ajax-style web development easier. Meanwhile, the NetBeans project, which is the primary open-source rival to Eclipse, on Monday announced that...
[March 8, 2007, 8:41]
Open Source Fans Try To Outflank .Net
News Even as Microsoft touts the open availability of the underpinnings of its .Net initiative, open source advocates are working to make sure .Net isn't a Microsoft-only technology But open source advocates don't trust Microsoft, citing its modified...
[July 5, 2001, 12:29]
Open Source Awareness Growing In Scotland
Talkback Mr Harvie should be asking his colleagues about the scandal that is giving an unfair advantage to MS software over cheaper Open Source alternatives in schools (a devolved issue if I am correct) Another example of 'lobbying' or just 'anti...
[August 26, 2005, 14:37]
Open Source Awareness Growing In Scotland
Talkback There's a difference between open source and open standards/formats. Olav, learn to read. An you're wrong again: MS's default file format for Office 12 is XML-based. For a researcher, you don't do a lot of research.
[August 26, 2005, 17:22]
Open-source Fight Staged On 'wrong Battleground'
Talkback One would preferr if Di Maio would speak about how Open Source application developers will be guaranteed protectection from the monopolistic practices of a company that is known to implement strategies that, on a software level, guarantee its...
[November 13, 2003, 10:14]
Open Source Would 'fork' Java - Sun
News Sun Microsystems is reluctant to make Java source code available through an open-source model because it would encourage incompatible versions of the software, Sun's top software executive said. During a press briefing on Tuesday, Jonathan Schwartz...
[March 17, 2004, 8:05]
Open-source ID Tool Awaits Microsoft's Go-ahead
News An open-source rival to a Microsoft identity tool has been in limbo for months, awaiting the software giant's go-ahead on certain patent-related issues. We don't intend to duplicate CardSpace, but a user should be able to sit down in front of the...
[March 12, 2007, 7:39]
Open Source ERP Firm Gets New Boss
News Compiere, a small company that develops open source ERP software to help customers manage finance, inventory and other business matters, has named LaVonne Reimer its chief executive officer. Compiere aids in support and shares revenue with those...
[February 28, 2006, 9:30]
Open-source Encryption Software Gets Update
News The latest version of popular open-source encryption software TrueCrypt is available for download. The free open-source disk-encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux allows people to encrypt an entire hard disk partition or a storage...
[March 21, 2007, 14:23]
Open Source Stirs Up Trouble For Novell
News Novell has become used to lobbying from the open-source community ever since its controversial deal with Microsoft was announced in November. The man at the centre of these issues is Stallman, the leader of the Free Software Foundation and the...
[March 21, 2007, 16:41]
Open Source Rival Attacks 'terrible' Linux
News Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of the open source operating system OpenBSD, said Linux developers should work to improve the quality of the code, according to an interview in Forbes . IBM, HP and Sun have come under criticism before...
[June 17, 2005, 13:00]
Open Source InfoCard Rival Gets Heavyweight Support
News IBM and Novell on Monday are expected to announce an open source response to Microsoft's forthcoming InfoCard identity management technology. The companies plan to contribute to an open source initiative code-named Higgins Project.
[February 27, 2006, 15:50]
Open-source Approach Fades In Tough Times
News The ideological purity of the open-source software movement is being diluted by a new era of pragmatism as start-ups adjust to the economic slump. Open-source describes a collaborative method of developing software by freely sharing programming...
[November 20, 2001, 13:03]
Open-source Group Aims At Interoperability
News A group of open-source software companies has banded together to try to ensure their products work well with one another, an effort aimed at matching the tight integration of competing products from proprietary software companies such as Oracle...
[February 14, 2007, 8:27]
HP: Open Source Can Be More Profitable Than Proprietary
News HP claims it has started to make higher margins from open source than proprietary software in some instances, due to the support costs associated with migration. Speaking to ZDNet UK on Wednesday, HP's open source and Linux chief technology officer...
[October 29, 2006, 13:03]
Open Source Support Firm SourceLabs Bags $7m
News SourceLabs said that it has secured $7m (£3.7m) in series B financing, as the company seeks to capitalise on the growing acceptance of open source software among corporations. SourceLabs was launched about two years ago around the idea of offering...
[October 27, 2006, 9:20]
Open-source Fight Staged On 'wrong Battleground'
Talkback He says that the "battle between open-source and proprietary software should be fought in the application arena". Mr Di Maio seems confused. He then seems to go on a dismiss the attempts of the Australian Democrats to introduce competition back...
[November 14, 2003, 2:53]
Open-source Alfresco Adopts The GPL
News Alfresco, a start-up that commercialises open-source software for helping customers keep track of their digital documents, has adopted the General Public License in an effort to attract outside programmers.
[February 23, 2007, 9:22]
